In our "prairie" where we generally go for walks to Saône river is overflowing into the meadows, and strage things are happening. The 2 storks I saw in the fall are still around. I do not know what is going on! There should not be any storks in this area and even less at this time of year!

When Compay wants in, he doesn't just stand there and whine or bark, he just sticks his nose right up on the window pane and waits for me to open. My computer is right next to that particular door...I do not know who taught him to do that and I'm lucky the other 5 don't do it.Can you imagine? It is really funny to see.

Let me explain: Many of us were led to believe, a few years ago,by our Barbet responsible at the club: Mrs Loiseau, that Jacques Prévert owned a Barbet.* I even have a framed poster!

Now, my question to the most famous Barbet Modern Historian circa 2009, Mr Alain Lankmans,breeder of generations of Barbets since 2009? PHD in theory and friends to the stars of the Barbet Modern world, would be to explain that IF the breed was extinct between 1940 and 1970 how could this dog be a Barbet when this photo was taken in 1955?

* The Barbet and the Briard or Berger de Brie, region very near Paris was a more logical choice and would also confirm the fact that both breeds really dis have a similar look; the Barbet being curlier, but not tight frizzy curls.

Now I will repeat as I always have that there were Barbets in the south of France at the Ayme brothers' in Graveson, but IF Jacques Prévert had gone there to get one, we'd most likely know about it. These people did not sell dogs the way we do today and there was no way Prévert would have wanted a hunting dog...of such a rare breed.Sooooooooooo.

TheseeUgolin di Barbochos Reiau de Prouvenco, father of Fenka which is where the sable/ dirty white comes from.

The ancestral Barbet color as specified in M Luquet's book in 1981. This book is the reference for would-to-be French SCC judges.Gray,black,dirty white, dirty white and gray or brown or black.Since the brown has become dominant with some white patches, but as in the case for black and white,or white and black, logically with browns it is the same.